Skill Quotes - page 18

Quoyle, who spoke little himself, inspired talkers. His only skill in the game of life. (Annie Proulx)
The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand. View quote
Tara Westover
Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all. View quote
Philip Yancey
An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation. View quote
Howard Gardner
Willpower isn't just a skill. It's a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there's less power left over for other things. View quote
Charles Duhigg
I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill. View quote
Bradley Cooper
It's a life lesson they need to have, a skill everybody needs - to cook. View quote
Guy Fieri
Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals. View quote
Daniel Coyle
In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read a memoir, I want to really, deeply experience what the author experienced. I want to see the characters and hear the way they speak and understand how they think. And so in that way, writing a memoir feels similar to writing a novel. View quote
Danielle Trussoni
I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it. View quote
David Duchovny
I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. (David Duchovny)
Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience? V: I beg your pardon? View quote
J.R. Ward
Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation. View quote
Jack Kornfield
Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about the rote memorization of facts. That's a discipline issue. You need the rote skill in order to have something to improvise off of, otherwise you are simply playing air guitar. View quote
John Medina
Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, Is this mine . . . Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man . . . I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job. View quote
Amy Adams
Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use. View quote
Eric Weiner
Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be gained, he may say to them, not by subtlety and intrigue not by wire pulling and demagoguery not by the arts of popularity not by skill and shiftiness in following expediency but by being firm in devotion to the principles of manhood and the application of morals and the courage of righteousness in the public life of our country by being a man without guile and without fear, without selfishness, and with devotion to duty, devotion to his country. View quote
Elihu Root
I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to. (Karen Joy Fowler)
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly. View quote
Alison Gopnik
It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler's neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security. View quote
Christopher Lasch